Full Name : Repertorium Homoeopathicum Syntheticum.
Edited By : Dr.Frederik Schroyens in collaboration with leading Homoeopaths throughout the world.
Foreword By : George Vithoulkas and also by the Editor.
Linked to : Software program RADAR -Rapid Aid to Drug Aimed Research.
Based on : 6th American Edition of Kent’s Repertory and contain all its rubrics and remedies.
Belongs to : Logical Utilitarian Group.
Published by : Homoeopathic Book Publishers,London.

For past 3 years, work is undertaken to prepare the present Synthesis in different languages.
Dr.Frederik Schroyens —— Homoeopathic coordinator of Radar Project.
In 1986, a” Request for collaboration” was sent to all leading Homoeopaths.
In the beginning a small group of Belgian Homoeopaths gathered around Prof.Jean Fichefet.
Radar was first developed as research project at the University of Namur,Belgium under the supervision of Jean Fichefet.
The Hahnemann Institute (Germany) had undertaken to print the Synthesis in German.
It has been commented upon and thereby improved over and over again (additions were added stepwise),which gives it an outstanding label of quality.

Construction of Synthesis
Based on 6th American Edition of Kent’s Repertory.
1717 pages.
38 Chapters— (37 of Kent + Dreams)
Grading——Bold capitals –BOLD
Bold small —Bold
Italics—-
Small—small
7th Edition contain 2,35,000 additions more than the original Repertory of Kent.
Collected from more than 330 different sources.
Also 1st repertory to contain information about more than 2,000 remedies.
A new remedy catalogue of 3,712 remedies (excluding synonyms)
and a new author catalogue of 1821 references are included in 7th Version.
Even though with substantial increase in information, the number of pages has remained about the same.
Each page contains 15% more information.

Some Specialties of Synthesis
Symptom format is more clearly readable. At each level,either words follow each other in the normal order or the symptom is split only once.Split is indicated by” ;” to show the place from which one should start reading . In kent “, ” is used .

Eg.1)Mind,Delusion ,person,that something hanging over a chair is a,sitting there – Calc.c.(Kent)
Mind,Delusion,person ,something hanging over the chair is a person sitting there -Calc.c. (Synthesis)
2)Delusion ,policeman ,come into house , thought he saw (Kent).
Delusion , policeman,coming into house;he sees a policeman . (Synthesis).

Contain repeatedly checked additions.

Corrections of Kent’s Repertory made.K and also the reference indicating the source of correction.
Eg.1) Delusion,starve,he must -Kali.chl (Kent).
Delusion,starve,he must – Kali.m (Synthesis)
K,Cl But in text,Delusion,starve,he must-Kali.m hrl,k hrl,k*

Structure of symptom made more transparent to avoid all possible ambiguity.
Eg.1)Generals,trembling,externally,internally,joy from (Kent)
Generals, trembling, externally,joy from (Synthesis)

Expression or words written in two or more ways, only one has been maintained, based on Webster’s Dictionary.
“Descending stairs” replaces “descending stairs, when”.,”descending steps”,”going downstairs” and “stairs,on going down” of Kent.
Seldom used words and expression replaced by contemporary language.
Eg.1) Dipsomania = Alcoholism.
2) Child bed = Delivery,after.
International time table 0-24 hr replaced a.m s and p.m s.

Synthesis Repertory 9.1
By Dr.Mansih Bhatia www.hpathy.com
Synthesis has been the most favored repertories of the modern era ever since it first appeared on the horizon. The repertory which started its journey as an updated Kent’s repertory has now become so much more. Synthesis now includes information on nearly all new medicines, clinical information from a variety of established sources, data from works of Hahnemann, Boenninghausen, Boger, Phatak and many others. The best part is that Synthesis 9.1 now comes with a utility CD which adds to the beauty of the book. While retaining the quality of the book, the print size has been reduced slightly to make the book handier. The book follows the same schema as used in earlier version but with some useful restructuring of rubrics that we will describe later. Most of the details that follows have been taken from the book itself.

What’s New in Synthesis 9.1
All the information from the Introduction and the Mind sections of all the remedies in Boericke’s Materia Medica (br1) has been integrated (14,717 additions).
New clinical information from André Saine (Canada) has been added to Synthesis 9 (more than 3,200 additions).

The CD
The most important innovation of the printed version 9.1 is that information normally reserved for the software users, has been made available with the book. It is presented on a CD and compiled into two additional volumes.

The “Textbook of Repertory Language” contains the following elements:
The rules of Repertory Language Formatting as before, but updated.
Explanation of the integration of the work of Bönninghausen, Boger, and the separate repertory information.
Interesting explanations of key symptoms (symptom notes).
Index of important changes and corrections as before but updated.
Also included is extensive information about families, relationships of remedies, and where to get new remedies.
The second additional volume is called “Companion to Synthesis”. It contains all the information that may be helpful to find symptoms in Synthesis:

An alphabetical listing of all Concepts, with the main remedies per concept and the related symptoms per concept.
The chapters of some often used concepts so that related information is in the same place.

Index of words with page numbers of rubrics in Synthesis as before but updated.
The Companion to Synthesis, which assists you in finding information in Synthesis more easily by listing rubrics with similar meanings or themes also includes a video where Frederik Schroyens and Will Taylor discuss restructuring Synthesis 9.1 and an empty repertorization grid to repertorize your cases.
More comprehensive information about these additional volumes can be found on the CD itself. In addition, the CD contains a demo version of the Radar 9 software.

CHANGES IN STREAMLINING AND RESTRUCTURINGThe change to Synthesis 9.1 addresses a problem well known to deft repertory users: much information is hidden in the subrubrics of the pain descriptions. Let’s clarify this with an example.

A patient tells you his pain in the eye is definitely better from rubbing the eye. Synthesis 9.0 offers 7 remedies with this modality in the rubric EYE – PAIN – rubbing – amel. The meaningful bit of information here is rubbing amel. The experienced repertory user knows that the EYE – PAIN section contains other symptoms which include this same modality.

These four rubrics all contain remedies whose pain in the eye is improved with rubbing. The relevance is that, if we combine these rubrics, we now look at 13 remedies instead of 7! Considering these additional remedies may increase the likelihood of choosing the correct remedy.

How has this issue been addressed in Synthesis 9.1?
In the past, for all the symptoms of the pain sections, the description of pain was always on level 3 eye – pain – burning – morning. In Synthesis 9.1 pain descriptions have been moved to the last level of the symptom. The above symptoms therefore become:

As a consequence, the rubrics containing the same modality are now positioned next to each other, on the same page or screen. In Synthesis 9.0 they were pages apart, pages that were seldom turned. This hidden information is now easily visible and usable.

This restructuring increases the number of remedy choices for thousands of modalities, sides, times, extensions, and localizations. These hidden symptoms and their remedies were hardly ever looked at before. Now it has become very easy to consider this information when necessary.

In addition, the remedies of these symptoms expressing the same side, time, modality, extension, or localization have been copied to the common super-rubric. Reverting to the example above, this means that EYE – PAIN – rubbing – amel. has 13 remedies in Synthesis 9.1 (instead of 7 in Synthesis 9.0).

In order to achieve this drastic change, it had to be preceded by another step: a thorough streamlining of all symptoms. Here is the explanation why:

The modality cold air agg. is expressed in several ways at different places in the Repertory. For example, in Synthesis 9.0:

If we restructure this information, these rubrics would become:
HEAD – PAIN – cold – air agg. – cutting
HEAD – PAIN – air – cold; from – tearing

This would result in a cluttered pattern of rubrics with identical meanings, expressed in different ways. Therefore, we have streamlined the modality cold air agg. throughout the Repertory into cold – air – agg. before undertaking the restructuring.

As a consequence of this streamlining and restructuring process, some familiar rubrics have undergone some changes.

First of all, the symptom level expressing the description of pain has been moved. There is only one thing to remember in order to find the new symptom location: move the “description of pain” to the last level of the symptom and you will find the symptom in Synthesis 9.1.

This applies only to pain symptoms that contain a “description of pain” (e.g. burning, cramping, tearing, etc.). Some examples:

Second, the streamlining may have moved a familiar rubric to a different place altogether, besides considering the first explanation above. You look for a symptom modified with air – cold, and in Synthesis 9.1 you will find it under cold – air, not under the letter “a”(ir), but under “c”(old).

It may take some time to adjust to the new streamlined modalities and locations. The advantage is that this streamlining is now consistent throughout the repertory.

Synthesis 9.1 adds more armor to the homeopathic tool-kit and makes available lot of ‘integrated’ information that will prove useful to every homeopath.

Comments

1. Comments will be moderated. Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name, to avoid rejection.
2. Comments that are abusive, personal, incendiary or irrelevant cannot be published.
3. Please write complete sentences. Do not type comments in all capital letters, or in all lower case letters, or using abbreviated text. (example: u cannot substitute for you, d is not 'the', n is not 'and')

Name (required)Mail (required)Website

CAPTCHA Code*

Comment moderation is enabled. Your comment may take some time to appear.

This site complies to the
HONcode staandard for
trustworthy health information verify here